Pat Conroy Quotes

People profess to have certain political positions, but their conservatism or liberalism is really the least interesting thing about them.

Probably like a lot of people, my personal politics are all over the map.

What's the difference between a liberal and a conservative? A liberal will interpret the constitution, a conservative will quote it!

What my political views or my constitutional views are just doesn't matter.

I'm apolitical. Where all that Conservative business came along from, I don't know.

The presidents I served under don't have anything to do with my politics.

Am I a Republican? Yes. Am I a Democrat? Yes. Am I a conservative? Yes. Am I a liberal? Yes.

I have no exact political philosophy that I could summon up with one ism.

I don't know what Russell Moore's politics really are. I don't know if he is a closet liberal or if he is a conservative.

Usually, whatever people's particular political leaning is, they either think I'm just like them or the opposite.

I'm not tied to any particular political line.

I used to be a Democrat, now I'm basically a Republican.

I have never found a Federalist over the age of 30 who has ever changed his mind about politics.

Many Americans don't like the simple things. That's what they have against conservatives.

I was never a Democrat but there are some Republicans who think I ought to be.

Look, 85% percent of Democrats think the economy's fine. What does that tell you about these people?

Listen, everybody thinks I'm a Republican, but I'm not a Republican.

I didn't know a liberal from a conservative. I had a clean slate.

I think President Obama is clearly, you know, a Republican. I know, because in the 1990s I was a Republican, and he's way to the right of me, and I've hardly changed any positions.

To be conservative at 20 is heartless and to be a liberal at 60 is plain idiocy.

People ask me what I am politically and I've previously offered this equation: I became a conservative by being around liberals. And I became a libertarian after being around conservatives.

Show me a young Conservative and I'll show you someone with no heart. Show me an old Liberal and I'll show you someone with no brains.

Men who sincerely abhorred the word Communism in the pursuit of common ends found that they were unable to distinguish Communists from themselves…. For men who could not see that what they firmly believed was liberalism added up to socialism could scarcely be expected to see what added up to Communism. Any charge of Communism enraged them precisely because they could not grasp the differences between themselves and those against whom it was made.

A liberal was somebody who expected and hoped that government would help the poor - you know, that whole routine. I did not know then and I've learned since that in an area that means a lot to me, free speech, liberals are as bad as many conservatives in trying to censor speech.

Everyone knows Bob Beckel views, radical left wing, socialist. He says he's a Democrat. But what may surprise you is that he actually has a conservative brother.